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Cloud Computing: Workday Barrels Out of the Gate
Workday tickled its IPO price again Thursday night finally settling on $28 a share.
Its original range was $21 to $24, which was jacked up to $24 to $26 Tuesday.
Then it barreled out of the gate shortly before 10 Friday morning opening at $48.05, almost 72% higher than its IPO price.
The cloud reprise of PeopleSoft, started in 2005 by the same people who ran PeopleSoft before they were run off the range by a hostile Oracle takeover, got its validation making around $637 million on 22.75 million shares, pulling off the biggest largest cloud IPO – heck, the biggest tech IPO – since the Facebook fiasco in May.
Amazon Web Services Cheat Sheet
The cloudvertical blog has a new AWS cheat sheet plus a good discussion of the “how in the heck can I predict what this will cost us?” problem.
Cloud Computing: Alteryx Humanizes Big Data
Alteryx thinks it’s managed to humanize cloud-borne Big Data, a good thing too since its analytics is directed at normal business folk as well as data analysts.
In the fashion of the times it’s combined its sophisticated analytics – its stuff is used by such as Wal-Mart, MacDonald’s, Sprint and the top 10 wireless providers – with a consumer-based social enterprise experience.
It’s supposed to let organizations get to the value of Big Data exponentially faster.
Alteryx figures that makes it a pioneer.
Cloud, Big Data and Mobility – Game Changers for the US Open
For all sports fans out there, the Cloud is becoming a reality for major sporting events. The recent US Open Tennis tournament had over seven hundred thousand estimated people attend the event. Traditionally all these folks would attend the event, enjoy the matches, check the web site, eat delicious food and yell hard at the event to encourage their favorite players. There was a web site for many years that provided information about matches, players and breaking news.
However with the advent of social media and mobile devices, there has been a shift to new delivery channels and innovative ways to communicate. Millions of people world wide followed the event and leveraged social media. The web site was accessed by millions of people and offered live streaming for computers and mobile devices. Not just that but the event generated millions of tweets about player information, past performance, who may win and other personal opinions.
Does Cloud Solve or Increase the "Four Pillars" Problem?
When moving to the cloud, the four pillars become much less manageable. The amount “much less” implies depends a lot upon your cloud provider, and how you define “cloud”.
Put in simple terms, if you are suddenly struck blind, that does not change what’s in front of you, only your ability to perceive it.
In the PaaS world, you have only the tools the provider offers to measure these things, and are urged not to think of the impact that host machines may have on your app. But they do have an impact. In an IaaS world you have somewhat more insight, but as others have pointed out, less control than in your datacenter.
Battle for Control of the Mobile Wallet: Sorting out Players,Technologies, Strategies
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Javelin Strategy & Research’s new report “Battle For Control Of The Mobile Wallet: Sorting Out Players,Technologies and Strategies to Win” to their offering.
Mobile payments and purchasing at the physical point-of-sale have experienced little adoption in the U.S. marketplace despite abounding innovation in mobile and payments technologies. Control over the consumer’s preferred mobile wallet will be critical to the new business models that will develop in this ecosystem and the tremendous wealth that will accrue to the winners.
The battle for control of the wallet is in its initial stages, with many players just entering the field, jostling to grab early market leadership, and changing alliances and positions rapidly. A successful wallet will have to find a winning proposition for consumers, merchants, mobile network operators and financial institutions. This report will provide an update on how products have moved, where we can expect these products to be in the future, which primary technologies are being used at the POS (NFC, cloud, and bar code), and how wallets can maximize adoption.
Highly innovative but new vendors to the payments space, such as Google, the mobile network operators (the Isis partners in particular), Square, and Apple will need to position and partner differently than incumbent companies, such as Visa, MasterCard, card issuers, and alternative providers like PayPal. This report will also address consumer perception of different providers and why Visa and PayPal lead as preferred consumer wallet providers.
Primary Questions
– What is a digital wallet, and why is it important?
– What are the differences among NFC, cloud, and bar code mobile wallets, and what are their advantages and disadvantages?
– Who are the major competitors in the mobile wallets space, and how are they different?
– How are incumbent payments competitors transitioning into the mobile wallet space?
– Who are new entrants in payments , and what are their advantages and disadvantages?
– Which mobile wallets do consumers prefer?
– Which consumer segments should wallet providers target?
Executive Leadership for the Cloud, Big Data and Mobility Volcano
Information technology is undergoing a major shift due to new paradigms and a variety of delivery channels. The drivers for these technologies are social networks, proliferation of devices such as tablets and phones. Social business and collaboration are continuing to develop further to enhance productivity and interaction. All these technologies are like a volcano ready to erupt and the key to surviving a volcano is preparation and knowledge. Hence there has to an emphasis on sound preparation to leverage these technologies.
The first step is to develop an organization or agency wide strategy, mission and vision that addresses these areas to achieve business agility. The business strategy, business cases and plans should incorporate the cost, benefits and risks of these technologies. However one shoe size doesn’t fit all, hence specific areas where these can be applied should be identified and communicated. There may be internal or legacy applications that don’t need to be updated due to the substantial cost and integration concerns.
Securing clouds and taking educated steps
The most common objections for holding back SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption, as reported from end customers, are ‘security’ and ‘reliability’.
This is interesting when you consider that SaaS Security is consistently reported as the fastest growth area of SaaS. This ‘security’ objection usually stems from the customers’ perspective; they are concerned about the security of their data held outside their perimeter by the cloud provider.
Yet despite these concerns there has been a thunderstorm of growing noise surrounding cloud computing in the past 24 months.
Vendors, analysts, journalists and membership groups have all rushed to cover the cloud medium, although everyone seems to have their own opinion and differing definition of cloud computing. Similar to many new sectors of technology, the key is to separate the truth from the hype before making educated decisions on the right time to participate.
While still evolving and changing, cloud computing is …
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Freeing Cloud Data – SQL for SaaS
As data as a service providers are emerging to aggregate and manage large data set sources from multiple sources to make this information more easily available and usable to businesses, it is increasingly imperative to enable an easy-to-use service for data connectivity. As customers put more of their data assets in the hands of cloud vendors, they will demand readily available visibility into the source of their data and how it is used.
The challenge of managing multiple cloud and enterprise data sources is becoming increasingly more complex. With a diverse set of solutions such as CRM, B2B, EAI, accounting, and more becoming more prevalent in the cloud, working together and sharing data can be daunting to IT departments that are used to managing their solutions in-house.